Ole Gunnar Solskjaer called Manchester United about Erling Haaland when they were both at Molde, but his former side didn't take advantage of the recommendation. Things could've been so different for Haaland, MCFC's leading man. 📝 DTathletic ➡️
clubs all toyed with the idea, according to Vik. But too many seemed to misjudge, or underestimate, what was in front of their eyes.
“Liverpool could have got him. Arsenal could have got him. Everyone was there to watch him but these clubs were seeing a No 9 who was tall and broad and, ‘Oh, he’s going to be a target man’. I couldn’t for the life of me see why they had narrowed him down that way. The scene was the Brumunddal stadium in Innlandet county, Norway. It was September 2015 and the best under-15s from Norway andAn 18-year-old Erling Haaland holds off Hibernian’s Efe Ambrose in the Europa League
“I could see Erling talking to the player beside him. Sweden’s goalkeeper was at the edge of his penalty box, stretching, preparing for the second half. I thought, ‘No, no, no, no effing way! He’s not going to try that, is he?’ And then he did it. Erling chipped the goalkeeper and put the ball straight into the goal.“Even now, you can hear the excitement in Vik’s voice and the unmistakable sense that he is reminiscing about a once-in-a-lifetime discovery.
“In my report afterwards, it was all about his mentality. In Norway, everyone has more or less the same personality. If you aren’t like that, you’re looked upon as crazy. But this guy doesn’t care. He’s just being himself.”
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